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Imdadullah Mahajer, head of the cultural information department in Samangan province, says that an explosion occurred on Wednesday at a religious school called Al-Jihadi in the vicinity of Aibak city, the center of Samangan province. Mahajer said that students wer praying at the time of the explosion. According to him, 15 students were killed and

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – At least 15 people were confirmed dead and 22 others injured as a blast ripped through a seminary in Afghanistan's northern Sam

A Taliban official says at least 10 students were killed Wednesday when a bomb blast hit a religious school in northern Afghanistan.

A number of explosions have rocked Afghanistan in the year since the Taliban assumed control, with no one taking responsibility in the immediate aftermath each time.

While nobody has claimed responsibility for the blast yet, the likeliest culprit is the Islamic State, which has increased attacks since the Taliban took power.

A blast occurred in Jahdia seminary during afternoon prayers on Wednesday in Aybak city in Samangan, local media reported.A provincial hospital doctor said that at least 15 people were killed in the blast which also wounded 27 persons who have ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — A bomb blast hit a religious school in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least 10 students, a Taliban official said. The explosion went off at around the time of...

The United States condemned the blast that took place in Afghanistans Samangan, which claimed 16 lives and said that all Afghani children have the right to go to school without fear.

At least 19 people were killed and 24 others wounded Wednesday by a blast at a madrassa in Afghanistan's northern city of Aybak, a doctor at a local hospital told AFP. There have been dozens of blasts and attacks targeting civilians since the Taliban returned to power in August last year, most claimed by the local chapter of the Islamic State (IS) group. In May last year, before the Taliban's return to power, at least 85 people -- mainly girls -- were killed and about 300 were wounded ...

A bomb blast hit a religious school in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least 10 students, a Taliban official said.